On 13Sep2020 20:51, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:12 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
>> As a concrete example, for __length_hint__ and operator.length_hint, 
>> I
>> wish that in addition to saying "New in version 3.4", it also said
>> "specified by PEP424 [link]", since I had to go find that with a search
>> engine to understand the rationale.
[...]
>A downside of linking to the PEP is that sometimes the PEP has an 
>outdated
>version of an API. For example asyncio has evolved quite a bit since PEP
>3156 (some stuff in the PEP turned out not so hot), and I'm sure that's not
>the only case. But all in all I like the idea of linking to the PEP from
>the "versionadded" or "versionchanged" note.

Happy to use the term "originally specified by PEP424 [link]" :-)

I'll make some PRs. How to submit? Here, or a BPO or something?

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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